Virgo/Committers/Bash

Contextual Bash History simply means that instead of having to type the up key a million times to find what you want or using the ! syntax for the last command starting with a string, you can get the best of both worlds. You can type a short string and then use up and down keys to search through anything in your history that meets that requirement.

To enable this

Add the following lines to your ~/.bash_profile file. This will optimize your history for this kind of behavior.

# do not make noise
set bell-style none
# By default up/down are bound to previous-history
# and next-history respectively. The following does the
# same but gives the extra functionality where if you
# type any text (or more accurately, if there is any text
# between the start of the line and the cursor),
# the subset of the history starting with that text
# is searched (like 4dos for e.g.).
# Note to get rid of a line just Ctrl-C
"\e[B": history-search-forward
"\e[A": history-search-backward
$if Bash
# F10 toggles mc on and off
# Note Ctrl-o toggles panes on and off in mc
"\e[21~": "mc\C-M"
#do history expansion when space entered
Space: magic-space
$endif
# Include system wide settings which are ignored
# by default if one has their own .inputrc
$include /etc/inputrc